About
The CICA evaluation study
In 2014, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) agreed a Greater Manchester (GM) Alcohol Strategy 2014-2017 which included taking forward a programme of activity to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Within the strategy there was a particular focus on the role of the community in reducing alcohol harm and the expanded use of licensing and regulatory powers to address alcohol availability. In pursuing these objectives, the GMCA entered into a partnership with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) to develop training for and introduce alcohol health champions in all 10 GM local authority areas in 2017.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme commissioned the Communities In Charge of Alcohol (CICA) multi-university research team to investigate the effectiveness of this locally delivered alcohol health champion intervention. It was a quasi-experimental study, made up of three work packages:
- Outcome evaluation (University of Bristol)
- Economic evaluation (University of York)
- Process evaluation (University of Salford)
The evaluation was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Programme (Grant Reference Number 15/129/03).
Permission to reproduce material
Permission to reproduce material from our published NIHR report is covered by the creative commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Full details of acknowledgments and authors' contributions
Full details of acknowledgments, authors' contributions and participating investigators can be found in: Burns EJ, de Vocht F, Teixeira Siqueira N, Ure C, Audrey S, Coffey M, et al. An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment. Public Health Research (in press)
